Your Mid-Week Experiment
7 articles, 3 songs, 3 movies, a recipe and a comedy special
Let’s get to it:
To mark the demise of Sports Illustrated, here’s the most Jason Stanford of all articles they ever published. (David Simon)
This is why Pitchfork being folded into GQ is bad news for music and not just media. (Chris Richards)
Green Day just dropped one of my favorite all-time tracks. I’ll be over here chair dancing, and no, I won’t turn it down.
This piece about the head speechwriter in charge of the Mayor of Boston’s State of the City address brought back PTSD. If you want to know how it’s done right, read this. (Pro Rhetoric)
The Academy snubbing Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie were appalling from a gender perspective, obviously. But here’s why they flummoxingly infuriating for cinephiles. (Ann Hornaday)
There’s a new kind of climate denialism. Now, instead of saying there’s no problem, they’re attacking the solutions. (The Verge)
Humans existed, each with an unconscious, for two million years — and then, for the last hundred thousand years or so, we acquired language. (Cormack McCarthy)
Yes, but… how did humans, and not similar animals, evolve to be so receptive to the virus of language? This is in response to McCarthy’s piece just above. (Judy Sedivy)
I loved this horseradish salmon and mustard potatoes sheet pan recipe (New York Times Cooking)
Are you home sick? Want to watch something entertaining but not too taxing?
For some reason, watched a lot of movies with little girls doing bad-ass things this week.
If you like Nicolas Cage but don’t particularly dig westerns, you’re going to like The Old Way.
Jacqueline Novak’s special made me keenly want to see this on stage.
Why does this have to be the theme song for every year since 2016? h/t E.J.)
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